Embankment Films

Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...

Peter finds his already hectic life upended when his ex-wife appears to discuss their teenage son Nicholas, who has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his own father to have taken care of him, but the rigors of raising a new son with Beth and a new position at work make him lose sight of how to hold on to Nicholas. The Son is a compelling cautionary tale about a family...